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Frugal Road Trips with Kids

My husband, toddler and I drove today from St. Louis,  Missouri to Oklahoma City for a swim meet. We travel by car fairly often to attend the swim meets of our teenage daughter,  so we’re really mastering the art of  traveling with kids and doing it on a budget.
As I was driving today, it occurred [...]

4Mar2010 | lipsticktocrayons | 0 comments | Continued
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Great Spa Deals!

If you are in the market for a spa treatment (can you say a facial or mani-pedi before Spring Break?), then you should consider booking  your indulgence during an upcoming national spa discount event!
SpaFinder.com’s Deal Daysis a one week promotion running March 8th through the 14th providing spa patrons across the country with discounted spa treatments [...]

12Feb2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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New Favorite Piece of Jewelry

I have a new favorite piece of jewelry — it’s my new photo charm necklace from Snapfish. I just gave away one of these necklaces to one of my readers who entered a contest hosted by Snapfish on my site, here, but now that I’ve received my own photo charm necklace, I wanted to tell you [...]

2Feb2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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Babies, the Olympics, A Commercial Appearance & A Year’s Supply of Diapers

Did you know that a cruising baby in one day can take as many steps as a marathon runner in a race? And a nine-month old baby can crawl up to 400 meters in 20 minutes? It’s this active play that continually inspires the Pampers brand, and now Pampers is giving babies their own gold-medal moment this Olympic [...]

29Jan2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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Get a FREE Makeup Kit with ANY Purchase

Have you ever tried E.L.F. (Eyes Lips Face) cosmetics? Almost all of their makeup products are $1, and you can buy sets for $3 to $5. You can find E.L.F. cosmetics at Target, but you can also order the products online — which is what I suggest you do right now, because if you do, [...]

27Jan2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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$15 Coupon off $15 Purchase at The Limited

I heard about this $15 coupon for the Limited today and I scored big. (Thanks to The Coupon Project).
The coupon is good for $15 off any purchase of $15 or more. It excludes clearance items, but it doesn’t exclude in-store promotions. So here’s what I got for $10.17:
This silky charcoal t-shirt was regularly priced at $29.50, [...]

23Jan2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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So Cute I had to Share Again!

Here is my toddler singing at lunchtime and helping fill in the blanmks on her favorite book: “Where the Wild Things Are.”

22Jan2010 | lipsticktocrayons | 3 comments | Continued
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Meet the Double Duty Divas

I want to take just a minute to introduce a brand new site on the Web – Double Duty Divas. This site is a blog network of which I am proud to be a part! The network was started by two brilliant women — Cecelia, an English teacher and author of Cool Baby Picks and Bridgette, a [...]

18Jan2010 | lipsticktocrayons | 1 comment | Continued